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	<title>Global Development: Views from the Center » Owen Barder</title>
	
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	<description>Global Development: Views from the Center features posts from Nancy Birdsall and her colleagues at the Center for Global Development about innovative, practical policy responses to poverty and inequality in an ever-more globalized world.</description>
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		<title>EBRD Raises the Bar for International Appointments</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2012/05/ebrd-raises-the-bar-for-international-appointments.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 19:56:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Owen Barder</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economic Development]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Owen Barder - On Friday evening, the governors of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development   (EBRD) selected a new president: British civil servant Sir Suma Chakrabarti. The decision is important because the EBRD has recently taken on a major global challenge: assisting the countries of the Arab Spring.  It also matters because the selection process raised the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interviews with EBRD Candidates</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2012/05/interviews-with-ebrd-candidates.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 00:57:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Owen Barder</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economic Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International Financial Institutions]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Owen Barder - On Friday the Governors of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) will decide who will be the Bank’s next President.  Today we are publishing interviews with four of the candidates. In September 2009, the leaders of the G-20 meeting in Pittsburgh called for the “the heads and senior leadership of all international institutions [to] [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CGD Europe Asks: Who Should Be the EBRD’s Next President?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2012/05/cgd-europe-asks-who-should-be-the-ebrds-next-president.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 13:35:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Owen Barder</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economic Development]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/?p=8580</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Owen Barder - The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) will appoint its next president in ten days, after months of deliberation. Many in the international development community are pushing for the process to be open, transparent and merit-based&#8211;a rallying cry you&#8217;ll recall from the recent World Bank presidential selection process. On behalf of CGD Europe, We&#8217;ve invited each [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It’s (Still) Time to Try Something New to Pressure Assad in Syria</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2012/04/it%e2%80%99s-still-time-to-try-something-new-to-pressure-assad-in-syria.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 13:57:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Owen Barder</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Global Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Regions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United Nations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Assad]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/?p=8417</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Owen Barder - This is a joint post with Kimberly Elliott The April 12 deadline for a complete ceasefire in Syria seems to have slightly damped the violence in Syria for now, but alone it will do nothing to ensure a peaceful transition to a democratic government. President Bashar Assad’s government is still not complying with other parts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The World Bank Gets Open</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2012/03/the-world-bank-gets-open.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:33:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Owen Barder</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[International Financial Institutions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World Bank]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Data Transparency]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/?p=8317</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Owen Barder - The World Bank has responded to concerns about its recent agreement with Google with a welcome announcement that it will only support mapping collaborations which make crowd-sourced data publicly available – and that means not collaborating this way with Google. This is important because the World Bank is a leader in the use of maps [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don’t Be Evil (World Bank &amp; Google Edition)</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2012/02/dont-be-evil-world-bank-google-edition.php</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2012/02/dont-be-evil-world-bank-google-edition.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2012 19:09:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Owen Barder</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[World Bank]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Data Transparency]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/?p=8145</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Owen Barder - This post first appeared on Owen Abroad, along with a list of suggested further readings. Please post any comments on the original version. I am a generally a fan of both the World Bank and of Google, but we should all be worried about their recent deal. The intention is good: it is to promote crowd-sourcing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brian Atwood (OECD-DAC Chair) Reflects on Busan Progress</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2011/12/brian-atwood-oecd-dac-chair-reflects-on-busan-progress.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 21:50:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Owen Barder</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aid Effectiveness]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Owen Barder - Brian Atwood, the chair of the Development Assistance Committee at the OECD (and administrator of USAID from 1992 to 1998), was one of the key figures at last week’s Busan High-Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness. He had to help find a balance between broadening the alliance to include new and emerging donors with pushing for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How the Open Government Partnership May Have Contributed to Busan</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2011/12/how-the-open-government-partnership-may-have-contributed-to-busan.php</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2011/12/how-the-open-government-partnership-may-have-contributed-to-busan.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 14:47:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Owen Barder</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/?p=7691</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Owen Barder - This is a joint post with Stephanie Majerowicz “The defining division these days is increasingly: open or closed? Are we open to the changing world? Or do we see its menace, but not its possibilities?” &#8212;Tony Blair, A Global Alliance for Global Values, September 2006 It is easy to be cynical about international summits and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will Donors Hide behind China?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2011/11/will-donors-hide-behind-china.php</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2011/11/will-donors-hide-behind-china.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 14:58:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Owen Barder</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aid Effectiveness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Transparency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[iati]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/?p=7628</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Owen Barder - This post was originally featured on Owen Barder’s Owen Abroad: Thoughts on Development and Beyond blog. Will the largest aid donors hide behind China to excuse their inability to make substantial improvements in foreign aid?  How can Busan balance the desire to be more universal with the pressing need for real changes in the way [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Effective and Transparent Donors</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2011/11/effective-and-transparent-donors.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 15:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Owen Barder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Owen Barder - This post was originally featured on Owen Barder&#8217;s Owen Abroad: Thoughts on Development and Beyond blog. In two weeks there will be a huge international meeting on aid effectiveness in Busan, South Korea. Ban Ki-moon and Hillary Clinton will be among the two thousand delegates who gather together to discuss improvements in how aid is [...]]]></description>
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